Nights black agents taking the vampire with you story for the vast majority of you who arent familiar with it, nights black agents is a game that can best be described as burn notice, if michael weston discovered in the pilot episode that he. Nights black agents pdf version rpg item version link from publisher blurb. As good as the toolkits that nights black agents provides are, the rules and advice deliver on the game and genre that they promise. Nights black agents pelgrane press ltd 2011 character sheet v2012feb27. With janet montgomery, shane west, seth gabel, tamzin merchant. Its the censored version of bram stokers afteraction report of the failed british intelligence attempt to recruit a vampire in 1894. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Nights black agents archives fandible actual play podcast. If you have a general ability rating of 8 or higher, youre incredibly talented at that activity and may get access to cool bonus. For more than a century, the topsecret operation within mi6 codenamed edom has defended the united kingdom from the machinations of the undead. If you want to take a look at what characters we made and some of our campaign discussion, check out my previous post. Vampires beware, for tonight, nights black agents to their prey do r. Well, its far less deadly than unhallowed metropolis, so it has that going for it. Double tap, is a massive expansion book for nights black agents that clocks in at 4 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page inside of front cover, 2 pages of editorial, 3 pages of toc, leaving us with 123 pages of content, so lets take a look.
Character generation general history pick a name, and a common handle. Abilities health 4, stability 4, cover 10, network 8, streetwise 1, tradecraft 1. It is guarded by alarms and other conventional security, but the team is not toldread more. You were a shadowy soldier in those fights, trained to move through the secret world. Nights black agents is the latest in pelgrane press gumshoe line of games. If youre not familiar with it, nights black agents is a gumshoe based game where you play burned spies on the run, who gradually realize that the powers theyre up against have a distinctly supernatural. A group of talented criminals are brought together by a mysterious and wellfinanced patron. Youll also get pdfs of both dracula dossier books, as well as immediate access to the nights black agents rpg and our inprogress production docs so. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, while nights black agents to their prey do rouse. Its an actionthriller with a focus on conspiracies.
Ask the players to describe their car, which must be able to hold all of the pcs. Alternate nights black agents character record sheet for the dunwich sanction using the laundry as the basis for the character organisation. Were loving the campaign, but have very mixed feelings about the system. Conclusion wrap up the demo by having the pcs cinematically defeat limrovich and disarm the ticking nuclear device. Review of nights black agents rpgnet rpg game index. Four book limited edition set in a slipcase, with gm screen. Sneaking, fighting, running all these are done with general abilities. The first is an ancient and valuable artifact from the safe of an art gallery. After all possibly the most exciting and best thought out aspect of nights black agents, is how it gives numerous fantastic options for a director to create their own vampires. It gives you a lot of rules and ideas to run a spythriller game really well.
It was published by arkham house in an edition of 3,084 copies. Dangerous, highlycompetent professional spies learn that vampires are pulling the strings, and vow to take them down. Nights black agents by kenneth hite is published by pelgrane press. Take your players on the greatest vampire hunt in history more than a hundred years in the making. Nights black agents ken and robin talk about stuff. Modus operandi is the unofficial source for espionage roleplaying games on the internet since 1999. Most print products include the pdf for instant download. As a gumshoe game the play focuses on resource management, with players spending points to advance the story and. Its filled with innovative features that help create a unique gaming experience and make it relatively easy for the game master to create an elaborate global vampire conspiracy without spending endless hours on preparation. Nights black agents is one of the games to use the gumshoe system. Investigation is crucial, but it never slows down the action, which explodes with expanded pelgn01 9781908983398.
Whiles nights black agents to their preys do rouse. Hangman since i got into the excellent trail of cthulhu by pelgrane press, i started to branch out and take an interest in some of their other products. The zalozhniy quartet is a series of four linked adventures from acclaimed rpg writer gareth hanrahan, and designed by nights black agents creator kenneth hite. Hooding a yuanti, wandering 1930s shanghai on tribes of tokyo. The books title is taken from macbeth, act iii, scene ii. The original book was a collection of ten fantasy classics that was published by arkham house in 1947. In this vampire spy thriller, the characters are secret agents who discover and confront a vampiric conspiracy the rules are a different flavor than straight gumshoe to better fit the genres involved. Red rock dreams part 1 of 2 april 11, 2014 by podcast 4 comments 3 agents head to russia to uncover the secrets of a new and terrifying gang of drug dealers. If i had to choose just one singleauthor horror collection to keep forever not counting greatest hitstype retrospectives, nights black agents would definitely be in the top 3 or 4. All of the ideas can be easily used for any other roleplaying game system. Nights black agents pdf version wiki boardgamegeek. Nights black agents brings the gumshoe engine to the spy thriller genre, combining the propulsive paranoia of movies like ronin and the bourne identity with supernatural horror straight out of bram stoker. October 19, 2016 october 20, 2016 mparker546 actual play, dracula dossier, nights black agents, rpg we played our first dracula dossier game this past weekend.
The patron wants them to steal certain objects from certain places. Ask the players if they have the faster or the more maneuverable car their choice. Until now, the emphasis of these titles has been investigation, with simple mechanics that ensure the players will always get the information they need to drive a story forward. Gumshoe 101 for players general abilities are how you get stuff done. We kick off our nights black agents campaign with an ambush and a mysterious contract.
On the second day of christmas my gm gave to me, two draculas and a final girl fleeing to safety. The pcs may need to use their skills to delay or reroute polish law enforcement officers in order to give themselves some privacy as they take limrovich out. The record sheet does not reference fringe science which can be appended under academic abilities as i opted to use ken hits backslash rule for fringe abilities, as per the ken writes about stuff. Nights black agents is a roleplaying game where to put it like the designer does jason bourne meets dracula. In nights black agents, the players take on the roles of secret agents working to uncover an insidious worldwide conspiracy thats controlled by evil vampires. Our second consecutive allrequest episode kicks off in the gaming hut, as ray slakinksi asks for tips on running nights black agents at conventions in the history hut andy young wants to know about the mythos truth behind the death of legendary canadian painter tom thomson rick neal uses the kind offices of ask. Nights black agents pairs two genres that might at first seem incongruous. Nov 5, 2019 pelgranes brilliant conspiracy thriller from the twisted genius of gareth hanrahan, with story design from the alchemical crucible that is the mind of kenneth hite see more ideas about thriller, gertrude bell and russian prison tattoos. Nights black agents puts you in the role of a deadly secret agent, taking down the forces of darkness. Nights black agents puts you in the role of a deadly secret agent, taking down the forces of darkness bring your favorite highoctane spy thrillers to the table with nights black agents from. Buy nights black agents new edition by fritz leiber isbn. Ken hite brings them together in his newest rpg, nights black agents. Nights black agents and zalozhniy quartet jonne arjoranta. The chase questions to ask ask the players what time of day or night it is.
What does it do that i cant do with my favourite existing roleplaying system. Then you got out, or you got shut out, or you got burned out. You get prime early examples of urban horror from the 40s with smoke ghost and girl with the hungry eyes, and two of my alltime favorite lovecraftian tales, diary in the snow and a bit of the dark. You were part of the clandestine world, backed up by the full strength of the shadow state. Cotton discovers lifealtering news while mary learns the power of her femininity.
What shouldnt require explaining though is how quickly the trf cast behind beyond the threshold came to love nights black agents for its unique blend of supernatural horror, techno. Nights black agents and zalozhniy quartet 3 minute read we recently finished a campaign of nights black agents, after playing it for 1. Nights black agents is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by american writer fritz leiber. Nights black agents won two silver ennie awards for best game and best writing, and was nominated for best rules, best interior art and product of the year. There are special combat and chase rules to reflect the actionadventure espionage.
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